Honda Trademarks CR-Z Name: Is An Electric Sports Car On The Way?

Or it could just mean nothing and Honda has simply trademarked the name so that another company doesn’t claim it.

Honda made the world’s only production hybrid car fitted with a manual gearbox, the 2010 – 2016 CR-Z, a rakish looking two-door that looked faster than it really was. Now it’s been nearly five years since it was taken out of production, the Japanese automaker has recently filed for a trademark with the US Patent And Trademark Office for the ‘ CR-Z ‘ name.

As MotorTrend correctly puts it, this could be entirely meaningless and it will not result in the creation of a car. Honda could just be doing it to prevent another automaker from claiming and using the name on another model.